1.   A warmer atmosphere sucks up more water from the oceans and in general makes more moisture available to developing storms.

2.   In late autumn, evaporation rates over the Gulf of Mexico subside as water temperatures lower with the season, lessening the amount of available moisture in the air.

3.   Showers will be rather limited along and ahead of the front because much of the available moisture will be intercepted by the showers and thunderstorms in southern Texas.

4.   Since the pouch is sealed, the food steams inside the pouch using any available moisture from the food.

5.   The lack of heavy snow was primarily a result of a lack of available moisture.

6.   The index, formally the Keetch-Byram Drought Index, is a measure of the amount of moisture available to plants in the soil.

7.   With an abundant amount of moisture available, any thunderstorm is capable of producing locally heavy rainfall.

8.   With a modicum of available moisture, the disturbance will produce mainly high and middle clouds from Oklahoma and northern Texas to Louisiana, southern Mississippi and southern Alabama.

9.   With the abundant moisture available, any storm is capable of producing locally heavy rainfall.

10.   As a result the diurnal heating and the sea breeze will combine with the available moisture to produce scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms over our area this afternoon.